Spirituality
74 Articles & Excerpts
Healing Through Prayer by eNotAlone.com Nowadays in the United States millions of Americans offer prayers on a daily basis to heal themselves, their families, friends, colleagues and even people they briefly know, considering it as the most common complement to medicine, vitamins, herbs
First Chakra: Balanced Foundation
True Balance: A Commonsense Guide for Renewing Your Spirit by Sonia Choquette, Ph.D. How can we balance our time and energy when our days are so hectic? How can we find harmony in mind, body, and spirit? In True Balance, renowned intuitive and spiritual healer Sonia Choquette presents a step-by-step workbook for finding balance within
A Real and Useful God
How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra, M.D. According to Chopra, the brain is hardwired to know God. The human nervous system has seven biological responses that correspond to seven levels of divine experience. These are shaped not by any one religion (they are shared by all faiths)
Brother
Spiritual Genius: 10 Masters and the Quest for Meaning by Winifred Gallagher Whether they are called saints, gurus, tzaddiks, or shamans, there have always been people who possess exceptional insight, altruism, and charisma. In this disarmingly inspirational book, Gallagher investigates what ordinary people trying to live decent
Introduction
The Seeker's Guide by Elizabeth Lesser In The Seeker's Guid, Elizabeth Lesser synthesizes the lessons learned from an immersion into the world's wisdom traditions and intertwines them with illuminating stories from her daily life. Recounting her own trials and errors and offering meditative
Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Gaius Glenn Atkins Practically all the newer cults are quests in one general direction but down more or less specific roads. Christian Science and New Thought are endeavors after health and well-being and the endeavor also to reconcile the more shadowed experiences of life
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man by Patañjali The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today by Evelyn Underhill This book has been called 'The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day' in order to emphasize as much as possible the practical, here-and-now nature of its subject; and specially to combat the idea that the spiritual life - or the mystic life
Part One
Everyday Immortality: A Concise Course in Spiritual Transformation by Deepak Chopra, M.D. For thousands of years human beings have asked the question 'Who am I?' Aside from great spiritual masters the vast majority of humans have no knowledge of their true identity as spiritual beings with unbounded potential.
Money is an uncomfortable subject
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment by Maria Nemeth, Ph.D. Many people would rather talk about their sex lives than about their bank balance. We love money, and we hate it. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. Money can be a source of great joy and creativity, or it can bring frustration
Rowing Toward God
The Ecstatic Journey: Walking the Mystical Path in Everyday Life by Sophy Burnham Threaded through her own story, Burnham gives us scores of firsthand accounts of mystical encounters as recorded by ordinary people today, as well as by saints, seers, ecstatics, and holy men and women of every faith.
The New Disciples
Barefoot on Holy Ground: Twelve Lessons in Spiritual Craftsmanship by Gloria Karpinski As we move into the twenty-first century, spiritual inquiry has entered a phase of ripening maturity. Today a large number of seekers have abandoned the glitz and glamour of so-called spiritual trappings. They are more sober and realistic about the quest,
Teaching What We Most Want to Know
Animals as Guides for the Soul: Stories of Life-Changing Encounters by Susan Chernak McElroy While living with her husband and animals on a farm in Oregon, McElroy pondered the ancient bonds that connect humans and animals: the healing gifts of animals, the genius of people who talk to them, and the power of animal messengers.
Returning To the Circle
A Rare and Precious Thing: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Working with a Spiritual Teacher by John Kain Never have there been so many spiritual seekers and so much readily available information about paths to self-fulfillment. Yet this book is the first in-depth exploration of how to evaluate spiritual teachers, what to expect from them, and what to be
Unprepared
The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman, M.D. Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not? What can we learn from those who do, and how is their example applicable to our own lives? The Anatomy of Hope is a journey of inspiring discovery
I Only Meant to Wet My Feet
Say a Prayer For Me: One Woman's Life of Faith and Triumph by Stanice Anderson Stanice Anderson shares her inspiring story to show others they too can overcome even the most soul-destroying mistakes - and discover the lifelong assurance of peace and joy through a personal relationship with God. Stanice has lived through it all.
The Mystical Wands
Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles by Marianne Williamson The first thing a mystic needs is his or her tools. When I was a little girl, every August my mother would take me to the store to buy school supplies. First there was the important decision to be made about my lunch box.
Reclaiming Our Magic
Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles by Marianne Williamson My father used to speak of the Byzantine Rule, which is that nothing is as it appears to be. I have always had a sense that something is missing in this world-that at the very least there is something important we're not discussing.
A Hidden Teleology
God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution by James Redfield, Michael Murphy As we have noted, evolution has clearly demonstrated many kinds of progress. Observing this obvious fact of our universe, many scientists, philosophers, and theologians have asked if evolution has a telos, a fundamental aim or drive to manifest
The Meandering Course of Evolution
God and the Evolving Universe: The Next Step in Personal Evolution by James Redfield, Michael Murphy In ancient Turkey there was a river called the Meander that had more twists and turns than a corkscrew. That legendary body of water gave us a verb we still use today to describe looping and languorous journeys such as those we see in the evolution
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